Outside the Beltway

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.

We’re unlikely to see anyone like her again.

Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are pandering to the base.

In the US, the candidate defines the party, not the other way around.

As doubts about the health of the economy start to mount, President Trump’s job approval is starting to suffer.

Is social media making it harder for Democrats to nominate a winning candidate?

The House Judiciary Committee is moving forward on impeachment. Sort of.

The top ten candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination clashed last night in a debate that made clear the different ideological directions that this race is pulling their party.

Can the media fairly parse the statements of those running against President ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’?

As predicted, the Federal Budget Deficit has crossed the threshold back into the world of trillion-dollar deficits. This is all due to the hypocrisy of Republicans and so-called conservatives.

Some reports are suggesting that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might take on the additional role of National Security Adviser.

This evening ten Democratic candidates for President, including all of the front runners, appear on stage together for the third debate of the 2020 election cycle.

She decries swanky fundraisers and big money donors while benefiting from both.

Republicans managed to pull off a narrow win in North Carolina yesterday, but they shouldn’t be celebrating.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

The Air Force’s use of Trump hotels predates his presidency—but is still highly problematic.

There’s the truth, and then there’s Donald Trump’s version of the truth. The two are seldom related.

The Trump Administration from projects to build on-base schools and daycare facilities to spend on his border wall.

Hurricanes and corrupting truth.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

This morning it was a question, this afternoon is a done deal in three states.

For Donald Trump, the Presidency has been nothing but a get richer quick scam.

One of the giants of the progressive blogosphere is going away.

The August Jobs Report came in below expectations as other economic statistics point to a slowing economy.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is ending a Presidential bid nobody knew existed.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

President Trump’s newest tariffs went into effect over the weekend. They’re going to hurt.

As the race for the Democratic nomination heads into the fall, it looks as if it has already winnowed itself down to a top three.

So weird.

The Democratic National Committee is moving to block efforts by the state parties in Iowa and Nevada to open up the caucus process to more participants, citing security issues.

A former Federal Reserve officials argues that the Fed should not lower interest rates to compensate for the impact of the President’s trade war, potentially leading to his defeat in the election. This is an incredibly bad idea.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

Two new polls released today indicate that earlier suggestions that the race for the Democratic nomination had shifted were incorrect.

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson will retire at the end of 2019, setting up a contest in 2020 to fill the remainder of his term.

A new poll shows that most Americans want President Trump out of office, but don’t want to see the House impeach him.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.

Thanks for nothing, Republicans.

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

Elizabeth Warren is rising tn the polls of the Democratic primary race, but one analyst argues she may be the perfect candidate….to help re-elect Donald Trump.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

And what a week it has been.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent three weeks of cancer treatment earlier this summer. The second such treatment in a year, and the fourth in the last twenty years.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on with Fox News Channel to continue her career of lying on behalf of the President.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton is ending a Presidential bid that few people were paying attention to.